Portfolio Construction Using Alternative Strategy Allocations in Farmland, Private Equity, and Private Debt
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1 Portfolio Construction Using Alternative Strategy Allocations in Farmland, Private Equity, and Private Debt Stephen Johnston, Barclay Laughland & Karim Kadry Copyright 2017 All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. 1
2 ABSTRACT: A review of the Canadian investment market over the last 15 years reveals: a blended holding of alternatives composed of 1/3 farmland, 1/3 private equity and 1/3 private debt would have improved the financial performance of typical investor portfolios. KEYWORDS: Farmland, private equity, private debt, equities, bonds, efficient investment, investment portfolio, portfolio performance, pension plan, institutional investment, commercial real estate INTRODUCTION: In the current zero interest rate policy ZIRP environment, institutional investors are increasingly looking to less traditional asset classes to generate returns. A group of asset classes that have been the beneficiary of this push into alternatives in the last decade is farmland, private equity and private debt. We believe this is warranted as our research supports the conclusion that a blended portfolio of these investments materially improves portfolio performance. The following is a survey of abstracts from relevant research papers in the area: Robert Harris, Tim Jenkinson and Steven Kaplan (2015) Abstract: The merits of investing in private versus public equity have generated considerable debate, often fueled by concerns about data quality. In this paper, we use cash flow data derived from the holdings of almost 300 institutional investors to study over 1,800 North American buyout and venture capital funds. Average buyout fund returns for all vintage years but one before 2006 have exceeded those from public markets; averaging about 3% to 4% annually. Post-2005 vintage year returns have been roughly equal to those of public markets. We find similar performance results for a sample of almost 300 European buyout funds. Venture capital performance has varied substantially over time. North American venture funds from the 1990s substantially outperformed public equities; those from the early 2000s have underperformed; and recent vintage years have seen a modest rebound. The variation in venture performance is significantly linked to capital flows: performance is lower for funds started when there are large aggregate inflows of capital to the sector. We also examine the variation in performance of funds started in the same year. We find marked differences between venture and buyout leading to a much more pronounced impact of accessing high performing funds in venture investing. Lins, Kowalski, and Hoffman (1992) Abstract: Farmland equates to approximately 5% of the market capital of assets in the United States but is a de minimis allocation in institutional portfolios. The financial performance of U.S. portfolios that included U.S. stocks, bonds, and commercial real estate, could be improved by adding U.S. farmland. Shiha and Chavas (1995) Abstract: In this paper we present and test a segmented capital market equilibrium. We extend the traditional CAPM by explicitly considering barriers to the flow of external equity capital into farm real estate markets. The empirical results provide a plausible explanation as to why the traditional arbitrage-based pricing models fail to explain equity pricing in farmland markets. Lence and Miller (1999) Abstract: The present study investigates whether the farmland constant-discount-rate present-value-model (CDR-PVM) puzzle is due to transaction costs. The theoretical implications of transaction costs for the CDR-PVM of farmland are discussed, and two bootstrap tests of such implications are introduced and applied to Iowa farmland prices and rents. Empirical results regarding the validity of the CDR-PVM in the presence of typical transaction costs are ambiguous. Econometric tests indicate 2
3 that the CDR-PVM is consistent with typical transaction costs assuming a one-period holding horizon, but not when an infinite-holding horizon is hypothesized. Painter (2002) Abstract: Farmland has been a good investment over the past 30 years, as part of an internationally diversified medium-risk portfolio. For average or medium levels of risk, farmland can enhance the financial performance of an investment portfolio. Investors who choose to maintain a low-risk portfolio will not include farmland and, similarly, the gains at the high-risk level are also very minimal. The financial gains from farmland are a result of its negatively correlated returns with other equity markets. When added to an equity portfolio, the risk is reduced while maintaining the same rate of return on investment. This is especially true of the medium-risk portfolios. Farmland investment has associated problems including illiquidity, poor marketability and asset lumpiness. A potential solution to these problems is to allow the organization of a Saskatchewan (or Canadian) farmland mutual fund. Painter (2010) Abstract: This study shows that for the period , international portfolio investment performance was significantly improved with the addition of Canadian farmland. Farmland in Canada is considered relatively low risk, enters the efficient portfolios at low risk levels and adds the most financial improvement to low and medium risk portfolios. Compared with T-bills and long bonds, farmland has higher risk and yield, but lower risk than stocks. Compared with stocks, farmland has income yields and risk that are similar to or better than dividend yields and risk on stocks while farmland has capital gain yields and risk that are usually lower, on average, than stocks. The low and negative correlation of farmland yields with stocks and bonds make it a good candidate for portfolio diversification benefits. Painter (2015) Abstract: In recent years, as North American farmland prices have continued to rise, a number of North American public farmland investment trusts have been formed to offer investors a liquid and marketable farmland investment vehicle. How risky are these farmland REITs? This paper compares the investment risk with other popular investment options such as bonds, stocks, gold, oil and real estate using several well-known and accepted methods of risk analysis, including overall yield variance, CAPM, Value at Risk (VAR), and Drawdown. North American Farmland REIT has less risk than gold, oil, REITs and stock markets. Harris (2013) Private Equity Performance: What Do We Know? Abstract We study the performance of nearly 1400 U.S. buyout and venture capital funds using a new dataset from Burgiss. We find better buyout fund performance than has previously been documented performance consistently has exceeded that of public markets. Outperformance versus the S&P 500 averages 20% to 27% over a fund s life and more than 3% annually. Venture capital funds outperformed public equities in the 1990s, but underperformed in the 2000s. Our conclusions are robust to various indices and risk controls. Performance in Cambridge Associates and Preqin is qualitatively similar to that in Burgiss, but is lower in Thomson Venture Economics. Douglas J. Cumming, Grant Fleming, Zhangxin Frank Liu (2016) Abstract: We examine the performance of investments made by private credit fund managers into over 440 private companies in 13 Asian countries from 2001 to We show that the returns to private debt investments are relatively uniform across size, country and industry despite diversity in legal and economic system, size and age of credit markets. We compare the returns to two investments strategies commonly adopted by credit fund managers buy- 3
4 and-hold and secondary trading strategies. We find that strategies which involve buying/selling private debt on the secondary market deliver higher returns than a strategy of buying-and-holding a primary issuance. Finally, we conduct time series analysis of the variation in the performance of private debt investments. We build a private credit return index from the underlying loan data and calculate excess returns to private debt investments. Excess returns are positive and stationary over time. Excess returns are positively related to volatility (as measured by ΔVIX) and to credit risk (ΔTED spread) but are not influenced by market liquidity. TIAA White Paper Abstract: The opportunity for diversification with illiquid assets Private debt is a potential solution for institutional investors confronting low interest rates, rising asset correlations, and volatile markets. This relatively illiquid asset class historically has offered higher yields with less credit risk than similarly-rated public bonds. A TIAA analysis found that middle market direct loans and mezzanine debt increased portfolio risk-adjusted returns when combined with public stocks and bonds. For long-term investors, private debt s illiquidity can be a reasonable tradeoff for a more attractive risk-return profile relative to traditional asset classes. A new TIAA white paper explores the factors causing increased demand for private debt: Private debt has emerged as an asset class addressing institutional investors search for yield and lower volatility amid record-low interest rates and market uncertainty. Structural changes in fixed-income markets decreased liquidity and rising asset correlations are increasing investors willingness to trade liquidity for yield. Banks pulling back from the middle market have created opportunity for non-bank asset managers to issue direct loans to below-investment-grade companies at higher interest rates. Among private debt categories, middle market direct loans and mezzanine debt historically have offered attractive risk-adjusted returns as potential substitutes for high-yield bonds and equity. The private debt market s complexity requires due diligence in selecting experienced asset managers with a record of success in creating diversified private loan portfolios. DISCUSSION OF RESULTS: This paper analyzes the efficient frontier effects of the addition of a blended pool of equally weighted holdings of farmland, private equity and private debt to the three portfolio risk configurations over multiple time series. In summary the addition of the blended farmland, private equity and private debt allocation has a minimum risk - maximum Sharpe Ratio percent range between approximately 5% to 8% for a 15 year horizon 60/40 bond/equity portfolio. From the period data, we generated efficient frontiers with an equally weighted allocation of farmland (50/50 allocation of Alberta and Saskatchewan farmland), private equity and private debt. The efficient frontier (or portfolio frontier) is a concept in modern portfolio theory introduced by Harry Markowitz in It refers to investment portfolios which occupy the 'efficient' parts of the risk-return spectrum. Formally, it is the set of portfolios which satisfy the condition that no other portfolio exists with a higher expected return but with the same standard deviation of return. A combination of assets, i.e. a portfolio, is referred to as "efficient" if it has the best possible expected level of return for its level of risk (which is represented by the standard deviation of the portfolio's return). Here, every possible combination of risky assets can be plotted in risk expected return space, and the collection of all such possible portfolios defines a region in this space. In the absence of the opportunity to hold a risk-free asset, this region is the opportunity set (the feasible set). The 4
5 positively sloped (upward-sloped) top boundary of this region is a portion of a parabola and is called the "efficient frontier. If a risk-free asset is also available, the opportunity set is larger, and its upper boundary, the efficient frontier, is a straight-line segment emanating from the vertical axis at the value of the risk-free asset's return and tangent to the risky-assets-only opportunity set. All portfolios between the risk-free asset and the tangency portfolio are portfolios composed of risk-free assets and the tangency portfolio, while all portfolios on the linear frontier above and to the right of the tangency portfolio are generated by borrowing at the risk-free rate and investing the proceeds into the tangency portfolio. Source Wikipedia The time series utilized are 5, 10 and 15 years with a view to exposing potential shifts in risk/return profiles over time. We used three portfolio configurations to represent distinct investor risk profiles, with Medium risk being a typical 40/60 bond/public equity allocation: Low Risk 100% bonds Medium Risk 40/60 bonds/listed equities High Risk 100% listed equities 5
6 SOURCE DATA AND ANALYSIS: Annual change % Canada BC AB SK MB ON QC NB NS PEI NL CPI Oil Natgas Gold GDP Residential Bond S&P P Debt PE % -5.3% 5.1% 0.5% 3.4% 4.7% 9.2% 6.7% 0.8% 3.5% 1.7% 1.0% -30.8% -15.5% 0.6% -3.2% 1.8% 5.5% 30.6% 4.0% 19.0% % 0.4% 5.7% -4.8% 0.7% 2.1% 12.9% 15.4% 5.7% 10.4% 2.3% 1.8% 105.6% 11.7% 0.5% 7.0% 0.9% 5.0% 8.9% 4.3% 19.0% % 4.4% 4.3% -2.2% 0.6% 8.5% 11.6% 8.9% 2.5% 2.7% 3.6% 2.7% 8.1% 68.0% -6.1% 9.8% 0.9% 6.2% -2.0% 4.5% 20.0% % 0.9% 4.2% -1.5% 0.3% 4.8% 10.0% 1.0% 2.1% 0.8% 2.3% 2.5% -30.0% 8.7% 1.4% -0.8% 3.5% 5.3% -17.3% 6.0% 15.0% % 4.6% 6.4% 3.9% 6.4% 6.3% 8.2% 1.2% 0.0% 0.8% 0.0% 2.2% 50.0% -26.3% 24.0% 3.0% 3.4% 5.4% -22.1% 5.0% 11.0% % 4.6% 4.2% 3.1% 3.2% 7.2% 3.3% 4.8% 2.4% 1.5% 0.0% 2.8% 2.4% 65.4% 21.7% 17.7% 4.9% 5.0% 28.5% 2.0% 10.0% % 9.4% 9.0% 1.9% 3.7% 6.5% 3.1% 2.6% 0.0% 0.0% 3.8% 1.8% 30.2% 11.9% 4.4% 14.7% 4.7% 4.7% 4.4% 4.3% 11.0% % 17.2% 6.1% 1.3% 1.8% 5.7% 0.4% -0.3% 0.4% 0.0% 3.0% 2.2% 35.7% 34.2% 17.8% 14.3% 4.5% 4.7% 8.4% 3.0% 14.0% % 19.3% 8.9% 2.1% 5.8% 3.8% 1.5% 2.9% 2.7% 0.0% 5.8% 2.0% -2.6% -12.8% 23.9% 12.5% 7.1% 4.0% 12.3% 3.5% 15.0% % 18.7% 17.4% 11.0% 9.1% 3.9% 4.8% -1.4% 3.1% -1.4% 3.3% 2.2% 51.4% -2.2% 31.6% 11.4% 10.7% 4.1% -4.2% 4.0% 17.5% % 5.4% 9.1% 14.9% 10.7% 6.6% 11.7% 6.0% 9.7% -2.4% 4.0% 2.3% -53.6% 27.5% 4.0% 5.7% 4.8% 4.0% -40.1% 6.0% 15.0% % -0.7% 4.8% 6.9% 11.7% 6.2% 5.7% 8.2% 5.7% -1.4% 2.8% 0.3% 73.1% -54.0% 25.0% -11.5% -1.1% 2.7% 30.0% 5.5% 8.0% % -0.5% 4.4% 5.7% 4.7% 6.8% 3.2% 2.4% 3.7% 3.2% 0.7% 1.8% 13.3% 22.1% 30.6% 17.7% 1.2% 3.4% 19.7% 5.0% 9.0% % 0.2% 8.7% 22.9% 4.4% 14.3% 8.9% 1.3% 6.2% 1.5% 0.0% 2.9% 4.9% -11.8% 7.8% 10.9% 2.3% 3.0% 2.0% 4.3% 13.0% % 0.1% 13.3% 19.7% 25.6% 30.1% 27.4% 0.0% 9.8% 9.0% 0.0% 1.5% -8.4% -32.7% 8.7% 2.0% 2.2% 2.0% 14.2% 4.0% 14.0% % 3.0% 12.9% 28.5% 25.6% 15.9% 24.7% 7.2% 1.9% 4.4% 0.0% 0.9% 5.1% 40.2% -27.6% 1.0% 2.2% 1.7% 23.4% 3.7% 15.0% % 4.2% 8.8% 18.7% 12.2% 12.4% 15.7% 8.0% 7.0% 9.3% 0.0% 2.0% -45.6% 17.2% -0.4% -2.7% 1.1% 2.7% 11.1% 4.3% 15.0% average 7.8% 5.1% 7.8% 7.8% 7.6% 12.9% 13.5% 4.8% 5.0% 2.5% 2.0% 1.9% 12.3% 8.9% 9.9% 6.4% 3.2% 4.1% 6.4% 4.3% 14.1% St. dev 6.6% 7.2% 3.8% 9.8% 7.7% 8.7% 9.4% 3.5% 3.1% 3.8% 1.8% 0.7% 42.1% 33.0% 15.4% 8.2% 2.8% 1.3% 19.3% 1.0% 3.5% sharpe ratio (RF=3%) (0.14) (0.57) (1.50) Kurtosis (0.17) (0.44) (1.31) (2.15) (0.62) 0.13 (0.81) (0.22) 0.57 (0.39) 2.10 (0.88) (0.69) 15-yr average 8.7% 6.1% 8.2% 9.1% 8.4% 14.3% 14.3% 4.5% 5.7% 1.9% 2.0% 2.0% 8.9% 10.4% 11.1% 7.0% 3.5% 3.9% 4.6% 4.3% 13.5% St. dev 6.6% 6.9% 3.9% 9.6% 7.9% 8.7% 10.1% 3.7% 2.7% 3.5% 2.0% 0.7% 35.6% 34.7% 16.1% 8.4% 2.9% 1.3% 19.5% 1.1% 3.2% sharpe ratio (RF=3%) (0.33) (0.54) (1.40) Kurtosis (0.43) (0.04) 0.63 (0.67) (1.99) (2.76) (1.12) 1.63 (0.31) (0.39) 0.84 (0.10) 1.78 (0.86) (0.09) 10-yr average 11.4% 6.7% 9.4% 13.2% 11.2% 14.3% 14.3% 4.5% 5.7% 2.2% 2.0% 1.8% 7.3% 2.8% 12.1% 6.1% 3.5% 3.2% 7.7% 4.3% 13.6% St. dev 6.5% 8.3% 4.1% 9.2% 8.3% 8.7% 10.1% 3.7% 2.7% 4.2% 2.1% 0.8% 39.4% 30.8% 17.9% 9.0% 3.4% 1.0% 19.5% 0.9% 2.9% sharpe ratio (RF=3%) (0.19) (0.50) (1.58) 0.11 (0.01) Kurtosis (1.02) (1.29) 0.09 (1.16) (1.99) (2.76) 0.20 (0.53) (0.92) 0.98 (0.28) (0.57) (1.02) 4.06 (0.22) yr average 15.2% 1.4% 9.6% 19.1% 14.5% 15.9% 16.0% 3.8% 5.7% 5.5% 0.1% 1.8% -6.1% 7.0% 3.8% 5.8% 1.8% 2.6% 14.1% 4.2% 13.2% St. dev 6.5% 2.1% 3.6% 8.4% 10.6% 8.6% 10.2% 3.6% 3.0% 3.5% 0.3% 0.7% 23.4% 29.0% 21.0% 8.3% 0.6% 0.7% 8.3% 0.5% 2.5% sharpe ratio (RF=3%) 1.88 (0.77) (9.14) (1.60) (0.39) (1.94) (0.63) Kurtosis 1.00 (2.15) (0.59) 2.06 (3.05) 2.65 (2.11) (2.80) (0.63) (2.66) (1.13) 1.60 (1.06) (3.25) (1.93) (0.01)
7 Return 1. Efficient Frontiers for Low Risk Portfolio 100% Bonds with allocation of a portfolio composed of 33% Farmland (50/50 Alberta and Saskatchewan), 33% Private Debt and 33% Private Equity: 5-Yrs ( ) Min. Risk Max. Sharpe Mean St. Dev Sharpe P R Efficient Frontier Risk 7
8 Return Efficient Frontiers for Low Risk Portfolio 100% Bonds with allocation of a portfolio composed of 33% Farmland (50/50 Alberta and Saskatchewan), 33% Private Debt and 33% Private Equity: 10-Yrs ( ) Min. Risk Max. Sharpe Mean St. Dev Sharpe P R Efficient Frontier Risk 8
9 Return Efficient Frontiers for Low Risk Portfolio 100% Bonds with allocation of a portfolio composed of 33% Farmland (50/50 Alberta and Saskatchewan), 33% Private Debt and 33% Private Equity: 15-Yrs ( ) Min. Risk Max. Sharpe Mean St. Dev Sharpe P R Efficient Frontier Risk 9
10 Return 2. Efficient Frontiers for Medium Risk Portfolio 60/40 Equities and Bonds with allocation of a portfolio composed of 33% Farmland (50/50 Alberta and Saskatchewan), 33% Private Debt and 33% Private Equity: 5-Yrs ( ) Min. Risk Max. Sharpe Mean St. Dev Sharpe P R Efficient Frontier Risk 10
11 Return Efficient Frontiers for Medium Risk Portfolio 60/40 Equities and Bonds with allocation of a portfolio composed of 33% Farmland (50/50 Alberta and Saskatchewan), 33% Private Debt and 33% Private Equity: 10-Yrs ( ) Min. Risk Max. Sharpe Mean St. Dev Sharpe P R Efficient Frontier Risk 11
12 Return Efficient Frontiers for Medium Risk Portfolio 60/40 Equities and Bonds with allocation of a portfolio composed of 33% Farmland (50/50 Alberta and Saskatchewan), 33% Private Debt and 33% Private Equity: 15-Yrs ( ) Min. Risk Max. Sharpe Mean St. Dev Sharpe P R Efficient Frontier Risk 12
13 Return 3. Efficient Frontiers for High Risk Portfolio 100% Equities with allocation of a portfolio composed of 33% Farmland (50/50 Alberta and Saskatchewan), 33% Private Debt and 33% Private Equity: 5-Yrs ( ) Min. Risk Max. Sharpe Mean St. Dev Sharpe P R Efficient Frontier Risk 13
14 Return Efficient Frontiers for High Risk Portfolio 100% Equities with allocation of a portfolio composed of 33% Farmland (50/50 Alberta and Saskatchewan), 33% Private Debt and 33% Private Equity: 10-Yrs ( ) Min. Risk Max. Sharpe Mean St. Dev Sharpe P R Efficient Frontier Risk 14
15 Return Efficient Frontiers for High Risk Portfolio 100% Equities with allocation of a portfolio composed of 33% Farmland (50/50 Alberta and Saskatchewan), 33% Private Debt and 33% Private Equity: 15-Yrs ( ) Min. Risk Max. Sharpe Mean St. Dev Sharpe P R Efficient Frontier Risk 15
16 CONCLUSIONS: A holding of an equally weighted portfolio of farmland, private equity and private debt has been a good investment over multiple time periods both short and long term. For a medium risk portfolio represented by equity/bond holdings of 60/40 weighting, the introduction of such a blended holding enhanced financial performance and a material allocation is supportable. 16
17 NOTES: The sources used to derive the data series in this paper: Farmland - Farm Credit Canada Private Debt - PE Robert Harris, Tim Jenkinson and Steven Kaplan, Journal of Investment Management, How Do Private Equity Investments Perform Compared to Public Equity? 2015 Journal of Investment Management 2. Lins, D., A. Kowalski, and C. Hoffman (1992). "Institutional Investment Diversification: Foreign Stocks vs U.S. Farmland." In Proceedings of Regional Research Committee NC- 161, Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University. 3. Shiha, Amr N. and Jean-Paul Chavas (1995). Capital Market Segmentation and U.S. Farm Real Estate Pricing, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 77, May, Lence, Sergio H. and Douglas J. Miller (1999). Transaction Costs and the Present Value Model of Farmland: Iowa, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81, May, Marvin J. Painter (2002) Efficient Investment in Saskatchewan Farmland 13th International Farm Management Congress, Wageningen, The Netherlands 6. Marvin J. Painter (2010) The Portfolio Diversification Impact of a Farmland Real Estate Investment Trust, International Business & Economics Research Journal May 2010 Volume 9, Number Marvin J. Painter (2015) Assessing the Required Risk Premium for North American Farmland Investment, Journal of ASFMRA, pp Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson and Steven N. Kaplan, Journal of Finance, Douglas J. Cumming, Grant Fleming, Zhangxin Frank Liu, Asian Finance Association (AsianFA) 2016 Conference, May Markowitz, H. M. (1959). Portfolio Selection: Efficient Diversification of Investment, New York: John Wiley and Sons. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES: Stephen Johnston - Stephen is a co-founder of Capita Funds and Agcapita Farmland Fund. Stephen earned a BSc. (1987) and a LLB (1990) from the University of Alberta and a MBA (1994) from the London Business School. Stephen is the author of Cantillon s Curse an Austrian economic analysis of a number of key trends and a co-author of Equicapita s Little Book of What Next a detailed analysis of the SME valuation and sale process. Barclay Laughland - Barclay has over 15 years experience in private and public, corporate restructuring, mergers & acquisition transactions, and debt equity financings. Barclay received his BComm (1991) and a JD (1994) from the University of Saskatchewan. 17
18 Karim Kadry - Karim has 20 years of international experience in the investment and financial fields. He has lectured and presented at a number of universities including the American University in Cairo and Mount Royal University. Karim has a BSc. from Cairo University, MBA jointly from IESE School of Business and Nile University and a CFA. 18
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